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Corporate Culture

The False Choice Between Enterprise IT and Startup IT

There is much to like in the new book Rework, from the founders of 37signals. The book, geared toward small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs, is a collection of common-sense and (self-described) contrarian views on everything from the work hours necessary to be successful when starting a business… “Send people home at 5…You don’t need more hours, you need better hours.” to the need to focus on building your company rather than on external financing or the minuscule odds of making a [...]

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What Is Your Department’s Brand?

Lets start with the word “brand”, which seems to be in greater use than ever before, with much energy expended around “personal branding”, etc.  A quick search yields radically varied definitions of the term, from a declaration that your brand is simply what you say about yourself on as many social networks as possible, repeatedly, until it somehow “sticks”, to the Wikipedia definition that: A brand is a collection of experiences and associations connected with a service, a person or [...]

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Culture Wars

No, not of the political variety.  Beyond the mission, vision and values statements, the coffee mugs and the pot-luck lunches, how would your describe your IT Culture?  Who is driving it? Leadership (you):  If staff were asked, would they say that you are actively building a culture around a specific vision you have for the team and the organization?  Would they be able to describe that vision?  Do you have followers within leadership/staff that understand your cultural vision and support you in [...]

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